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Bogey Means Nothing to Worry-Hardened Auburn Women

Monday, May 20, 2013

Montgomery, Ala. — The Auburn University women’s golf team had to overcome far more than the normal highs and lows of the sport to make the NCAA championships. Coach Kim Evans was diagnosed with clear cell ovarian cancer May 7. One of the Tigers’ top players, Victoria Trapani, missed much of the spring after doctors found her mother’s breast cancer had returned in December. Assistant coach Margaret Shirley left in …

Former Thetford Academy athlete Jesse Chapman won the Big East decathlon title this spring for UConn. (University of Connecticut photograph)

Ex-Thetford Star Leaps High at UConn

Saturday, May 18, 2013

The spring semester recently ended at the University of Connecticut, but junior track and field athlete Jesse Chapman is still hard at work. Handpicked by kinesiology professor Jeff Volek to assist with an on-campus lab study, Chapman, an exercise science major, is in the midst of testing how various sugar alcohols react to …

NCAA Quarterfinals Have Ivy League Flavor

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Syracuse, n.y. — When top-seeded Syracuse faces off against Ivy League-champion Yale in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I men’s lacrosse tournament, the Orange will be staring at a mirror image of sorts. Just like Syracuse (14-3), the Bulldogs (12-4) seem to thrive when they’re down. Just ask Penn State. Yale trailed the No. 8 Nittany Lions 5-1 at halftime last week, …

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Family members talk with a Cabot Funeral Home employee at the scene of an accident that killed Norma Sawyer, of Bridgewater, in Woodstock yesterday. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap) Another Route 4 Tragedy: Bridgewater Woman, 84, Is Fourth to Die on Road Since March
Volunteer Wendy WIndsor, of Hartford, talks over dress choices with Hartford High School senior Jordan Schaal, 18, while volunteer Betsy Durkee ,of Lebanon, back left, mends a dress and Hartford senior Rhyan Mavilla, back right, searches the racks at the Cinderella Project shop in the Raq-On Dance Studio on the Lebanon Mall Wednesday. The Upper Valley Cinderella Project is an all-volunteer effort providing a choice of about 250 donated prom dresses to girls attending the spring dances throughout the Upper Valley. The shop is open Wednesdays from 5 - 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 - 2 p.m. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Preparing for Prom
Oxbow Union High girls lacrosse captain Dilan Clements leads her team in a cheer at the close of practice in Bradford, Vt., yesterday. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Oxbow Scoring Aces Get Help From Their Friends
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